[SHEET MUSIC] Plock’s Little Footsteps galop

A$190 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : J. C. W. Nicholson, [1874]. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, pictorial wrappers with a striking front cover design lithographed by Charles Troedel; 5 pp music notation (arrangement for piano); scattered foxing, else a fine copy. Published in Melbourne in July 1874 by Nicholson, Plock s Little Footsteps galop was described by one newspaper of the time as being the adaptation of a well-known air to dancing purposes ( Ballarat Star , 14 July 1874). Melbourne orchestra leader and composer Herr Adolph Plock was the arranger. The sheet music was available from the publisher s shop in Collins Street East, and also from the Ballarat music seller J. Harrison, at 137 Sturt Street. The Ballarat Star reviewer (ibid.) opined that the music was tastefully printed : small wonder, as it was designed and lithographed by the experienced and talented Charles Troedel, Nicholson s long-term collaborator. A scarce and beautifully lithographed piece of Melbourne sheet music. Trove locates two copies in Australian collections (NLA; SLV)

• Binding: Hardcover

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